Help with training
I work for a company that uses .NET for everything. We currently employ some ABAP consultants for our newly implemented SAP needs and I want to be able to take their place without having to learn ABAP.
What I need help with though is convincing my bosses to let me use Java instead of .NET. I was hoping that someone might be able to give me information or point me to an article that will show how much better it is to know/use Java (in relation to SAP) and why. I really appreciate any and all help.
Hi James,
First thing, without any ABAP knowledge you will struggle to get very far with a lot of SAP stuff - even the majority of the new technologies based on Java have some dependancy on ABAP at some point. It's all very well being able to write Java portal apps or standalone stuff in Java but if it has to interface to an SAP system, quite often ABAP knowledge would be invaluable. As it sounds like your company has no ABAP resource you would be stuck.
In answer to your specific question, the fact that most of the development forums on here deal mainly in Java and not .Net is a clear indication to a developer that Java is the answer for SAP. But of course I guess you are trying to convince management/bean-counter types?!
I'm not sure what to recommend... I've not seen any direct comparison documents between Java & .Net for SAP.
Do you already know Java or do you see this as a good opportunity to cross train? I'd be inclined to think about moving towards ABAP first to gain an understanding of SAP as a system - it sounds like you would be more of an asset to your company that way! - then move into the Java area afterwards.
Good luck!
Gareth.
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I have to implement wizard based page flow for my application and I read that we can achieve it using train component. I am not able to find documentation or examples on it.
Does any of you know any link to documentation and/or example program for it?
I am trying to see if train component will suffice for our needs. We have simple sequence flow, conditional branching, looping within the wizard flow (like adding repetitive items within the flow) etc.
Thanks in advance,
_JpHere are several very simple examples of the train in UIX. I don't know of any full example program.
<ctrl:page xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/ui"
xmlns:ctrl="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/controller"
xmlns:data="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/ui"
xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" expressionLanguage="el"
xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/ui">
<ctrl:head>
<html:title><train> element</html:title>
</ctrl:head>
<ctrl:content xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/ui">
<stackLayout>
<separator>
<separator/>
</separator>
<contents>
<link text="View Source"
destination="${ctrl:eventUrl(uix, 'viewSource')}"/>
<html:p/>
<styledText styleClass="OraHeaderSubSub"
text="Train with no children or selection"/>
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<styledText styleClass="OraHeaderSubSub"
text="Train with 4 children but no selection"/>
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<link text="Bali"/>
<link text="Baja"/>
<link text="Architecture"/>
<link text="Release"/>
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</train>
<styledText styleClass="OraHeaderSubSub"
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<contents>
<link text="Bali"/>
<link text="Baja"/>
<link text="Architecture"/>
<link text="Release"/>
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</train>
<styledText styleClass="OraHeaderSubSub"
text="Train with 4 children and selectedIndex=1"/>
<train selectedIndex="1">
<contents>
<link text="Bali"/>
<link text="Baja"/>
<link text="Architecture"/>
<link text="Release"/>
</contents>
</train>
<styledText styleClass="OraHeaderSubSub"
text="Train with 4 children and value=1 and selectedIndex=3 (value takes precedence)"/>
<train value="1" selectedIndex="3">
<contents>
<link text="Bali"/>
<link text="Baja"/>
<link text="Architecture"/>
<link text="Release"/>
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</train>
<styledText styleClass="OraHeaderSubSub"
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<contents>
<link text="Bali"/>
<link text="Baja"/>
<link text="Architecture"/>
<link text="Release"/>
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<styledText styleClass="OraHeaderSubSub"
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<link text="Bali"/>
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<styledText styleClass="OraHeaderSubSub"
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<link text="Active Step1"/>
<link text="Next Step2"/>
<link text="Next Step3"/>
<link text="Next Step4"/>
<link text="Next Step5"/>
<link text="Next Step6"/>
<link text="Next Step7"/>
<link text="Next Step8"/>
<link text="Next Step9"/>
<link text="Next Step10"/>
<link text="Next Step11"/>
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</train>
<styledText styleClass="OraHeaderSubSub"
text="Train with 11 children and value=4"/>
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<link text="Visited Step1"/>
<link text="Visited Step2"/>
<link text="Visited Step3"/>
<link text="Active Step4"/>
<link text="Next Step5"/>
<link text="Next Step6"/>
<link text="Next Step7"/>
<link text="Next Step8"/>
<link text="Next Step9"/>
<link text="Next Step10"/>
<link text="Next Step11"/>
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<styledText styleClass="OraHeaderSubSub"
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<link text="Visited Step1"/>
<link text="Visited Step2"/>
<link text="Visited Step3"/>
<link text="Visited Step4"/>
<link text="Active Step5"/>
<link text="Next Step6"/>
<link text="Next Step7"/>
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<link text="Next Step9"/>
<link text="Next Step10"/>
<link text="Next Step11"/>
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<styledText styleClass="OraHeaderSubSub"
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<contents>
<link text="Visited Step1"/>
<link text="Visited Step2"/>
<link text="Visited Step3"/>
<link text="Visited Step4"/>
<link text="Visited Step5"/>
<link text="Active Step6"/>
<link text="Next Step7"/>
<link text="Next Step8"/>
<link text="Next Step9"/>
<link text="Next Step10"/>
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<styledText styleClass="OraHeaderSubSub"
text="Train with 11 children and value=7"/>
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<link text="Visited Step1"/>
<link text="Visited Step2"/>
<link text="Visited Step3"/>
<link text="Visited Step4"/>
<link text="Visited Step5"/>
<link text="Visited Step6"/>
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<link text="Next Step9"/>
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<link text="Visited Step4"/>
<link text="Visited Step5"/>
<link text="Visited Step6"/>
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<link text="Next Step10"/>
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<link text="Visited Step3"/>
<link text="Visited Step4"/>
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<link text="Visited Step6"/>
<link text="Visited Step7"/>
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<link text="Next Step10"/>
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<link text="Visited Step1"/>
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<link text="Visited Step3"/>
<link text="Visited Step4"/>
<link text="Visited Step5"/>
<link text="Visited Step6"/>
<link text="Visited Step7"/>
<link text="Visited Step8"/>
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<link text="Visited Step2"/>
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<link text="Visited Step6"/>
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text="Train outside a form with validation. formName is set. id is set"/>
<styledText styleClass="OraTipText"
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<link text="Visited Step2"/>
<link text="Visited Step3"/>
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<link text="Next Step5"/>
<link text="Next Step6"/>
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<styledText styleClass="OraHeaderSubSub"
text="Train with no form. destination and id set"/>
<styledText styleClass="OraTipText"
text="Expected behavior is train has links, destination is the base url"/>
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<contents>
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<link text="Active Step4"/>
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text="Train with 11 children and destination. User returned to step 5 (value=5, maxVisited=9)"/>
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<link text="Visited Step2"/>
<link text="Visited Step3"/>
<link text="Visited Step4"/>
<link text="Active Step5"/>
<link text="Visited Step6"/>
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<link text="Visited Step7"/>
<link text="Visited Step8"/>
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<link text="Visited Step2"/>
<link text="Visited Step3"/>
<link text="Visited Step4"/>
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<link text="Visited Step6"/>
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<link text="Visited Step8"/>
<link text="Visited Step9"/>
<link text="Visited Step10"/>
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I was posting in a thread on support for logic which appears to have been deleted. anyway, what I was going to say I think is useful info for people, so I'm going to post it anyway. to the mods - it doesn't contain any speculation about policies or anything like that. just an explanation of my views on the best way to deal with issues people have with logic, which I think is a valuable contribution to this forum.
I think there's a need for perspective. when you buy an apple product you get 90 days of free phone support to get everything working nice and neat. you can call them whenever, and you could actually keep them on the phone all day if you wanted, making them explain to you how to copy a file, install microsoft office, or any number of little questions no matter how simple - what is that red button thingy in my window for?.. on top of that, you've got a 14 day dead on arrival period (or 10 days I can't remember) in which if your machine has any kind of hardware fault whatsoever it's exchanged for a totally new one, no questions asked. a lot of people complain that applecare is overpriced.. and if you think of it just as an extended warranty, then it is a little pricey. but if you are someone that could use a lot of phone support, then it's actually potentially a total bargain. the fact that 2 or more years after you bought a computer, you could still be calling them every single day, asking for any kind of advice on how to use anything on the machine, is quite something. many people on this forum have had problems when they made the mistake of upgrading to 10.4.9 without first creating a system clone or checking first with their 3rd party plug in vendors to make sure it was ok. so, with apple care, you could call them and keep a technician on the phone _all day_ talking you through step-by-step how to back up all of your user data, how to go through and preserve your preferences and any other specific settings you might not want to lose, and then how to rollback to an earlier OS version.. they'll hold your hand through the whole thing if you need them to.
as for applecare support for pro apps like logic, I'd be the first person to agree that it's not great for anyone except beginners and first time users. if you look at what it takes to get even the highest level of logic certification, it's all pretty basic stuff. and logic doesn't exist in a vacuum, there is an entire universe of 3rd party software and hardware, as well as studio culture and advanced user techniques that are going to be totally invisible to some poor phone support guy at apple that did a logic 101. but it's not hard to see that apple are trying to promote a different kind of support culture, it's up to you to decide whether you want to buy into it or not.
the idea is that they are able to provide basic setup support for new users, including troubleshooting. because it's a simpler level of support, at least they can do this well. so there's no reason why any new user with say a new imac and logic can't get up and running with the 90 days of phone support they get for free.
but the thing is, for extremely high end pro users it's a different matter altogether. pro use of logic within the context of say, a studio or a film composition scenario is a very different world. it's almost a nonsense to imagine that apple could even hire people capable of giving useful support for this end of the spectrum, over the phone. there are so many variables, and so many things that require a very experienced studio person or in-work composer to even begin to understand the setup, let alone troubleshoot it. and it's a constantly evolving world, you actually have to be working in it and aware of developments on 3rd party fronts as well as changes in hardware.. not to mention even changes in the culture of studio production and the changed expectations that come from that. there's no way some poor little guy sitting at a help desk at apple can even hope to be privy to that kind of knowledge. it's already good enough that they don't outsource their support staff to india, let alone go out to studios and hire the very people with the skills that should be staying in the studio! not answering phones for apple.
so, given this reality.. companies have two choices. they can either offer an email based support ticket system, which others do. but in my opinion.. this can just be frustrating and only a half-solution. sure you 'feel' like you are getting a response from the people that make the software and therefore must know it.. but it's not really the case due to what I said above. DAWs don't exist in a vacuum, and so much of what you need to understand to help people requires an intimate knowledge of the music industry in which they are working. you still won't get that from steinberg, even if they sort of answer your emails. the other problem is that this kind of system can mean sporadic answers, a lot of tail-chasing, and quite often you won't get an answer that helps you in the end anyway.
the other model is to foster a strong user support culture. some people react in the wrong way to this idea.. they just think it's a big brush off from the manufacturer, saying we don't care, go sort it out yourselves.. but this isn't true. apple has a classification for pro resellers called 'apple solutions expert - audio'. what this means is that these dealers are recognised as audio specialists and they can receive extra support and training from apple for this. but more importantly than this.. most of them are music stores, or pro gear dealerships that are also mac and logic dealers. they already employ people that have worked or do work in the music industry, and are constantly on top of all of this stuff. apple encourages these dealers to run workshops, and to provide expert sales advice in the very niche area that logic is in, which they can do far better than some generic apple store ever could. but most importantly, they are encouraged to offer their own expert after-sales support and whatever other value-adding expertise they can, to get sales. because margins in computer gear are so tight nowadays, discounting is not really a viable option for these dealers to guarantee getting musicians to buy computers and logic setups from them. the only companies that can entice people with a lower price a big online wholesalers or big chain stores. so the best idea for these niche expert stores to get sales is to offer you their own experts to help with configuration, ongoing support and to generally make it a better idea that you bought your system from them rather than from some anonymous online store. I can see the wisdom of this.. it puts the support back out there on the ground where it's needed, and also where it can work best. apple could never hope to offer the same level of expertise in helping a film composer work through some issues with a specific interface or some highly specific issue they have with getting a task done. no big software manufacturer could do this anywhere near as well as people out there that have worked in studios or currently do work in studios. so in my opinion it's a far better model to foster this kind of support culture, along with training courses, books and training video support. also user forums like this one are possibly one of the most valuable ports of call anyone could ask for. apple couldn't replicate this with their own staff, even if they tried. and even if they made a system where some of the people close to logic development were able to answer emails, it would still be nowhere near as useful, as rapid or as capable of being up to speed with logic use out in the real world with 3rd pary gear, as any of these other methods are.
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but really, in my view, a 3rd party support and training culture through a combination of specialist dealers, consultants that literally run a business setting up computers for pro-users and helping them keep it all working, online user-to-user forums and published materials really are the way forward.In all honesty this is currently the 3rd "logicboard" (motherboard)
in my powerbook due to a design flaw regarding the 2nd memory slot....
Yep. Mine failed five weeks after I bought it. However, I bought it for work and couldn't afford being without it for four weeks while they fixed it, so I had to live with it. My serial number did not entitle me to a replacement either, post Applecare.
My firewire ports have burnt out from a third-party defective device (no hot-plugging involved)
My screen is blotchy (my PW serial number did not entitle me to a replacement).
My battery serial number did not entitle me to a replacement, and is not that good these days.
My guaranteed Powerbook-compatible RAM is actually not, causing RAM related problems, most notably these days meaning that as soon as I switch to battery power, the laptop crashes, so I can only use mains power. The company I bought it from stopped taking my calls and wouldn't replace it after they replaced it once, so I'm stuck with it. And of course, only one ram slot is working, so I can't even use my original stick in the first slot, which would shift the dodgy stuff away from the lower system area.
My power supply failed at the weak spot and caught fire. I managed to break apart the power supply and recable it so I didn't have to buy a new power supply, although the connection at the laptop end is loose (all the more fun that as soon as power is lost, the laptop crashes - see above). The power supply is held together with gaffa tape. Silver gaffer tape though, so it's still kind of 'Appley"...
My internal hard drive is dying - four or five times now it clicks and won't power up, causing the laptop to die.
One foot has fallen off (but glued back on).
The lid is warped.
The hinge is loosish.
The S-Video adaptor cable is intermittent.
But aside from all that, I have looked after it well, and I love it to death. Just as well, because it doesn't look like it will be that long...
But it still "just works". Apart from the battery power obviously. And the ram slot. And the ram. And the screen. And the hard drive. And the firewire ports. And the feet.
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Hi Everyone,
I'm hoping that you guys and gals can help me with an ongoing problem that we have at one of our sites. We're working on areas of the location due to it's size and phone load. We have an area, that I will refer to as building A, that is roughly a square that is 240' x 240'. The inside of the building has some pallets inside for storage(they allow RF to penetrate through them) and also some metal production lines. There is also a mezzanine / elevated area in the middle that the users can walk under. It's not very large, but it would affect a phone if you walked underneath it while making a call. So, now that I have a brief description of the environment, I will tell you the equipment I'm running...
1 x 4402 50AP Wireless Controller with 6.0.199.3 (MR3) installed.
We currently have nine AP's installed in this area, with 4 up front so that way they cover the office areas better. Most are 1231G's, but some are 1242's.
Since we do not have A radios everywhere (budgetary decision) we are running all of these phones on 2.4Ghz (Yikes! I know!)
The 7920's use LEAP and the 7921's use PEAP MS-CHAP v2 with CCKM enabled on the controller.
I also have 802.1p wired QoS enabled for the voice QoS profile and it is applied to our voice WLAN.
We have conference rooms in the front area that will need to support roughly 20-30 maximum mixed 7920 and 7921G phones in a roughly small area. (Yikes! I know!)
We also have a 2106 with mesh .54M installed, but it is for outdoor AP's and should not be affecting this area.
So, I guess my questions are....
Has anyone ever operated the 7920 and 7921G's in mixed mode?
I'm thinking about separating the 7920s on 2.4 and tell the 7921's to prefer the A band or just use A. This will require A radios / surgery, but we've dealt with different code trains, TAC configs, and even added a few more radios. I think it's time to say we need to redesign this area. It doesn't help that phones keep getting purchased either....
What rule of thumb would you guys / gals say would be appropriate for this phone count in terms of the number of AP's I should use?
Since we're dealing with two different phone models, it makes it hard to simply just read the deployment guide. I know these phones can coexist, I just think we're running into over capacity and problems with 802.11B in the mix. In the conf room right now, there are most likely signals from at least two AP's. This doesn't seem like enough bandwidth for just the 2.4 Ghz range when 20 - 30 phones are in there. Not all of them are calling, but the associations / mgmt traffic alone must be horrendous since the phones are 802.11B
We are going to do a manual survey with a 1242 since that AP will support both phone models. I think we may need to survey twice if we're going to go this route; One survey for the 7920's on 2.4Ghz with a 1242AG and one survey on 5Ghz with a 7921G. I think that will provide the info we need to get the AP's repositioned where they need to be.
What kind of power levels should I be using in an area like that? We've originally had a survey at 50mW, but since then we turned the power down to pwr lvl 3 in some spots due to the additional AP's. I've seen references of roughly 1 AP per 3000 sq. ft at pwr level 4, but that seems overkill.
Can we run mixed power levels on AP's with the phones? Or will that cause one way audio due to the transmit power diffrences in the cells?
I'm thinking that we should pick a power level, survey the -67 cell size at the power level, add more AP's so that way they are overlapped 15-20%, and then actually implement the design. I'm pretty good at getting decent channel assignments in place. I know of non-overlapping channels, RRM, etc. I also have an AirMagnet laptop with an Aironet Adapter. It is good for finding noise, interference, etc...
I understand this is practically a book, but at this point, we've been trying a LOT of different things in order to get this to work properly. I think it's finally time for me to "strongly suggest" that we do the following...
1. Choose ONE phone model.
2. Choose ONE AP model.
3. Make sure to implement the 5Ghz band for all AP's so we have complete coverage.
4. Choose ONE power level for each band. This will affect the coverage and placement of AP's. I'd imagine that we'd need to survey with A first, and then survey with b/g. Typically we can use the 1242 and get about the same cell size on both bands, but 5Ghz is a higher frequency and may not penetrate as much as 2.4 Ghz..
5. Come up with a new coverage map based on a manual site survey with the phones mentioned above.
6. Implement the design.
7. Use it.
8. Try not to have a heart attack when the system actually supports that many phones in that area...
So, please, let me know your thoughts and if you have any suggestions. It would be greatly appreciated. We've been slowly working out the gremlins in the phones there over the past few years. I'm more of a data wireless person myself, but I do have good luck with a low to moderate phone count (usually no more than 7 calls per AP). Once we start doing craziness like trying to get 20-30 802.11B phones to work in the same area on only one or two AP's, then things start to become a challenge, especially when we don't have the 5Ghz cells to help with the bandwidth requirements for voice....
Thank you for your time,
CraigThere's a pretty recent (last few months) Voice over Wlan design guide published (was published for the 9971 phones - but all great advice) and it recommends just about all the settings required for an off the shelf wireless voice network.
http://www.ciscosystems.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cuipph/9971_9951_8961/7_1_3/english/deployment/guide/9971dply.pdf -
Terrible customer service, and no help with defective camera
Madams and Sirs,
This camera (see below) was a Christmas present, and we discovered first last week that it had a manufacturing defect. (one of the small tabs holding the case half together got installed in a pinched way.)
Best Buy has always had fantastic customer service, and we have been very happy. We have spend many thousand dollars in your store every year. So we were sure the store would have a solution.
We took it in to your store #1423 on Curtner in San Jose to try to exchange or replace under warranty.
I understand you sometimes you are not able to help a customer, but this email is first about the shock I got when I spoke with Megan in customer service.
As many customers in Silicon Valley, I am an engineering manager, and we have performed destructive testing on many of our own products. The defect on this camera is obviously a manufacturing defect, and not possible to be caused by poor handling. This is very obvious.
Megan told me with other employees as well as my son listening next to me that I was a liar, and that the damage was caused by abuse, and not a defect. I tried to explain that was not possible, and she interrupted me, and again said that i was not telling the truth, and that the assembly error was caused by us.
I then asked if it was possible to have the matter reviewed by the store manager, and she responded she was the store manager.
I left with the camera, and the matter unresolved, and had to explain to my son that I was not a liar, and that Megan must be wrong and "some people just have a bad day sometimes".
I will not be spoken to with insults like that, and I can no longer go to your store with my kids, and if my employees treated any customer the way Megan did, I would make sure she received training to correct this. If the store manager have this attitude to customers, the entire organisation usually follows, and I will not be a customer in a store like that.
1. Please help resolve this issue.Order number: {removed per forum guidelines}Hello erikev,
Cameras are nice to have, especially with young children, so I can imagine how frustrating it can be to find yourself with a pinched casing. When something goes wrong, it’s never a fun situation, and while it may not be something we can necessarily help with, great customer service should still be provided. It sounds like this didn’t happen the way we hoped, and I’m sorry this was at your expense.
As this situation is definitely concerning, I looked into your account to see how I might be able to assist. However, I have found your concerns have reached Terrance with our executive support team. He is currently looking into your situation and should contact you once more information is available. From here, Terrance will be your first point of contact.
Hopefully he can find a good resolution for you,
Alex|Social Media Specialist | Best Buy® Corporate
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Good Morning. I am in urgent need of some help with a specific final cut pro question. My coworker and I have been working on a video project for our employer, a university. He ran the editor (FCP) and I ran the logistics of setting things up, keeping the contacts and scheduling, etc.
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Second, can I edit this as easily as I think I can? Just click in the text file along the bottom timeline and edit that way?
How do I export the movie as an mp4 file after i have edited it.
Anything else that would be deemed helpful is always appreciated!
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Thanks for the help!You need to locate the Project file. Which will be somewhere in your colleague's User space.
In the Finder, press command and F to activate the Find function.
Make sure the following parameters are set:
Search *This Mac* and Contents
Kind is Documents
Type the project name.
The icon looks like this:
Double click it to launch Final Cut Pro with the project.
To locate the text overlay, click on the Timeline to make it active. Use the down arrow on your keyboard to jump from one cut to the next. The text overlay will look similar to this:
Double click on the Text clip. This will place it in the Viewer (the left "monitor").
Click the "Controls" tab above the Viewer and make your changes. Press Return.
Clicking anywhere in the Timeline once more will update it.
Make sure that no clips are selected and the Timeline is the active window.
Go to the menu bar: File > Export > Using QuickTime Conversion.
In the window that opens, make sure that Format is set to QuickTime Movie.
Click the Options button. Look at the top of the next window.
Does it say Compression Setting: H264? If it does, great.
If not, click the settings button and choose H264 from the *Compression Type* button.
At bottom left, drag the Quality slider to Best. Click OK.
This brings you back to the previous window.
Click on Size if you need to change something -there are a number of presets, but you can choose a custom size if you wish. Click OK.
That window is dismissed and returns you to the Save dialog.
Type a name and choose a destination for your file.
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I need help with the following:
I am currently making a Harry Potter short film and I'm doing a spell that hits my friend and my friend needs to be blown backwards (if you know what I mean, he needs to like kinda fly backwards because of the force from the spell).
Can you in anyway help me with this or give me an idea on how to proceed?
I've been thinking of setting a green screen up where the person jumps backwards on a mattress or similar.
Thank you so much, I really hope you can help me.
I have been searching the web for a long long time and didn't find any answer.
Contact:
Reply here
Skype: asgerrockzBe careful here. Someone yanking on another person rigged with a professional harness can suffer permanent spinal injury. I have a home and a family and I wouldn't attempt even a simple version of this kind of stunt without a rider on my liability policy, a professional and therefore bondable stunt coordinator, and a trained stunt person. No offence Todd but I'd never yank someone backward by a wire or cord attached to their torso.
You can do this very gently by having the actor just throw out their arms and jump backwards a bit then do the majority of the move in AE. Having the camera on a simple slider would also help. As the actor jumps back dolly the camera back on a slider.
I've been shooting and producing films for more than 40 years when not one injury on the set except for me. Fractured my L2 and L3 vertebrae on a fall with a SetadyCam in 1975 because we didn't do a thorough enough safety briefing. Don't just try and do something you think you have seen on YouTube without some serious planning. There's no need for anyone to get hurt on a set. -
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I need help with the last step of this tutorial- I'm confused about which layer it is asking me to select.
The link: http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/quick-tip-how-to-create-a-3d-sketch-text-effect--vect or-4576
And i posted a screenshot of my illustrator open and the step of the tutorial I am on. I realized the tutorial is for an older version of illustrator but
I haven't had any issues so far… Stumped! Help!
Thanks!This is the perfect example of why it is so important for trainers to label their layers. When all the layers say group and the rest is cropped by the dialog box, it really would cause confusion.
In other words, it is not your fault you were confused, it the the person that created that tutorial.
Other than contacting the trainer, you will need to follow Monika's advise. -
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Hello, I have no training in using Adobe Acrobat Pro or Livecycle Designer so I need major help with a 1 page form that I am attempting to create. Basically the form will be used to nominate employees for a Job Well Done Award.
The form contains the following:
1.) The name(s) of the employees being nominated and the date of the accomplishment.
2.) In the middle of the page I have a section for a write up, limited to 5000 characters, this is were I am needing the most help. A couple of things, about this section: The font is set at 11 and I don't want it to change. The text field has multiple-line, scroll long text enabled. The text field is a certain size and can only hold so much text, then it starts to scroll, which I am ok with, I like that feature. The issue I am having is during printing. I would like to keep the text field scrollable but when I print I would like to be able to print everything in that field. Executing this is the problem, I have no clue how to do it. I was hoping for some setting within Acrobat Pro or LiveCycle to be available, but the more I read and research this, it appears that it may require java, xml, basically some coding. I don't know for sure.
3.) Below the text field I have another field for the person nominating to type their name and right next to that another field for a digital signature.
4.) And finally below those two fields I have a Submit button that is setup to start email application so the form can be emailed to the proper inbox.
Thank you in advance.With an Acrobat form the only thing you can do is export the text to
another location (like a blank field on another page) or to another file
format. With an LCD form you can expand the text box itself, but you'll
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So the question is if there is a way to increase the mail cache in iOS 7, to lower the dependency of a very poor internet connection.I don't think so. Unless it's in the settings, there's not much that can be done.
are they using wifi on the train? If so, maybe switching to cellular. There are devices like the Mifi, which is a battery operated portable wifi hotspot that they can connect their device to.
If the wifi on the train is solid, I know I've had issues using certain hotspots. For example, my yahoo mail simply will not pull down via the mail app if I'm on some AT&T hot spots. But if I go in via safari then it works. So if the signal is good, maybe using a different way can help.
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I was wondering if someone could help me with a simple bit of action script 3. I need to make a movie clip (single_mc) disappear when the user clicks on the mouse (stop_btn). Here’s what I have so far.
function setProperty(event:MouseEvent):void
single_mc.alpha=0;
stop_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, setProperty);
Also I was wonder if you could recommend an Action script 3 book for me. I would like one that is not a training book, but has situations and then the script written out. For example: I click a button and a movie symbol disappears from the stage. I am a graphic artist, that from time to time, needs simple interaction in flash, but cant justify the time to learn the script.
Thanks for your timeuse the snippets panel to help with you with sample code for basic tasks.
function setProperty(event:MouseEvent):void
single_mc.visible=false;
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Need some help with region position
Hi,
I need som help with regions position....
Background:
I have 2 regions, I will call them reg1, reg2 and reg3.
reg1 = Page Template Body (2. items below region content), column 1, search region.
reg2 = Page Template Body (2. items below region content), column 2, import file region.
reg3 = Page Template Body (3. items above region content), column 1, search result, grid region, very wide.
Issue with the position, the setup explained makes my layout like this
reg1--------------------------------reg2
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What I want:
reg1-reg2
------------------reg3--------------------
What am I doing wrong?
Regards DanielDaniel,
this will also work:
Region1 HTML table cell attributes
width="10%"
Region2 HTML table cell attributes
align="left"
without touching the page template.
Denes Kubicek
http://deneskubicek.blogspot.com/
http://www.opal-consulting.de/training
http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:1
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Help with tracing an image please
Hi all, I've got an image I got sent by someone as I'me looking to cut it out on my vinyl cutter.
It's open in illustrator so I've selected it and click live paint - trace.
Below is the image.
When I trace it, all the straight edges go wonky and I'm unsure how to fix this.
Please help.
thanks,@simpson246 - I guess I'm a bit curious for a couple of reasons:
1) why you specifically came here to this forum, to ask for help about Illustrator. Besides the fact that Cutstudio also has an integrated tracing feature, your answer could have easily been found on say YouTube or through a Google search. Literally 1000's of tutorials on the web how to use the pen tool, manually or automatically tweak settings for Auto Trace and then do manual clean up.
2) the other point was that I was shocked (which is common the more often I visit these forums I must say), that while you have a vinyl cutter, you have no knowledge of how the designs or documents are created that you send to it. This has (as far as I know) always been done in one kind of vector software or another for almost a couple of decades now. Even the cutter software has a pen tool(s) to create the cut-line. So what made you decide to use a strange new program like Illustrator to do the job?
While I thoroughly enjoy teaching people new tricks or help troubleshooting problems, I do have a rather nasty pet peeve. That is when it appears that someone is too lazy to spend the time to search for an answer, or take the time to learn from the copious amount of information and tutorials freely available on the web, and posts a question instead.
I've been in this business now for 30+ years, and I can't tell you how many 1000's of hours I have given to learning my trade, whether software, art, or technology. I've done this on my time and my dollar for the vast majority of it. I never expected a "free simple ride", which means I also didn't ask questions until all other sources were exhausted.
Lastly, whether I should and do ignore it most days, the fact that so many people think that they can just purchase a couple of thousand dollars worth of equipment and software and now they are a "professional" business by just hitting the "print button".... irks me.
Over the years I've witnessed countless small businesses that invested literally 10s of thousands of dollars over the years, thus supporting the developers and moving the industry forward, with training and equipment... only to see them be undercut and sometimes wiped out be these "new kids on the block". The very same kids that come here now and ask "newbie" questions to do the job for 1/3 price. It is what it is and I can't change that and don't even attempt to, but it surely does get to me some days.
Yes, I realize I should be more disciplined and let it slide without comment then... but, ya know... I'm human and just as impulsive as the next guy/girl some times that posts the question rathing than waiting a minute or 2.
@Jongware - I agree fully with "Learning By Mistake is a perfectly good way to learn".
It's learning by "having some one else do all the work", or "learning on the free individually tailored training from others" that I disagree with. Google, YouTube, AdobeTV, Smashing Magazine, etc. etc. also offer "free", you just might have to apply yourself. Also there is fantastic and affordable online training from Lynda.com to boot.
Learning by mistake and experimentation is the only way some of us Old Dogs were able to learn at all. Now get off my lawn!
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